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> From: "mos" <mos99@stripped>
>
> The IN() clause is very inefficient because MySQL will NOT use the
> index.
> It will have to traverse the entire table looking for these values.
Has that still not been remedied ?
> It will get the information from the index and not have to access the
> record data from disk. If the index is stored in memory, then it
> won't have to go to disk (unless you also have a sort). That is why the query
> cache is so important.
Indices don't go in the query cache, strictly speaking, they go in the MyISAM index cache
or in the InnoDB pool.
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